Predictions of annual number of people flooded, based on Hadley Centre models. (a) Change from the present day to the 2080s: unmitigated emissions. Reduction in change due to mitigated emission scenarios: (b) stabilization at 750 p.p.m. and (c) stabilization at 550 p.p.m.

The projected emissions of carbon in millions of tonnes. Note that to convert to emissions of CO2, one should multiply by 3.664, the atomic ratio. This plot shows that the larger developing countries account for much of the forecast rise in emissions.

Depiction of the growth of different economies and implications for energy demand, in million tonnes of oil equivalent. (OECD: North America, Western Europe, Japan, Korea, Australia, New Zealand; transition economies: FSU, Eastern Europe; developing countries: all other nations, including China, India, etc.)

Tables

This table shows, for given plateau or stabilization levels of CO2 (including the ‘equivalent CO2’ which accounts for the presence of greenhouse gases other than CO2), the predicted temperature changes by 2100 in the case of the third column by the IPCC 2001 modelling and in the fourth column by more recent Hadley Centre modelling. (Based on den Elzen & Meinhausen 2005.)